When requesting a phone number in a form using the Phone Entry type, my user is apparently allowed to enter any random string at all. I fully expected it to limit input to the right length, and to digits only (and maybe parenthesis and/or hyphens). This is a simple and standard input validation, a…

[image] Jason_Fisher: On my iPhone this doesn’t even bring up the numbers-only keypad in response. And it seems I can’t manage a workaround of allowing only digits, with a minimum and maximum length of 10. If only it was that simple …

I kind of like the ability to enter numbers and text (to indicate cell, home, work, etc.). On Android, at least, the phone component will easily ignore any text and only work with the numbers, so it’s helpful for adding additional info, such as additional descriptors, or extensions (with a comma to …

On IOS you can create custom labels for phone numbers. So same, but different… But my point is that phone number validation is a bit of a slippery slope, and not as simple as the OP seems to think it is. To start with, his criteria of “digits only, fixed length of 10 digits” would exclude precisely…

Honestly, I think the Number Entry component would be better with a Min validation value of 1000000000 and a Max validation value of 9999999999 (US number format), but I think it still gets hairy if you start to include dashes.

People like to write phone numbers deferent ways… so i would recomend using IF column to check if entry column contains characters that you don’t like in that field and action would be show notification or disable submit button… Is not hard to do

Thank you, all, for your thoughts and suggestions. In response to several replies at once, let me clarify… The ability to click on a stored phone number and trigger a device to start a call is great, but for now requires the data to be correctly formatted (which to me means manually curating it). I…

Good tip – I agree. That’s the best workaround I have come up with so far. It could at least force a user to put in 10 digit number that doesn’t start with 0 (good for US users only but that’s fine for now).

In adicional of what Uzo said, I’d made with a single Template column picking the phone column and adding some replacements: . - + ( ) space Everything you replace to blank This will bring you only numbers

We need Regex support in Glide. That would be unreal.

Not related but congrats on being made Certified Expert! Totally deserved.

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Darren_Murphy May 18, 2021, 9:25am 17

yeah maybe…

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Phone entry format validation

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